Sentences with phrase «election day cyber»

But the biggest attraction to an election day cyber attack is the massive stage it would play out on.

Vote - by - mail is one way many of the concerns with voting machines or election day cyber strikes could be largely contained.

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The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

Obama said the actions were «not the sum total of our response» and that his administration would provide a report to Congress in the coming days related to Russia's «efforts to interfere in our election, as well as malicious cyber activity related to our election cycle in previous elections.»

We need to assume that cyber attacks on election day will become the norm, not the exception.

Election day is a ripe target for cyber attacks.

Voting machines have long been under fire for their potential vulnerabilities, but they represent just one tiny aspect of the cyber threat matrix surrounding election day.

When people think about a cyber attack on election day they are most likely to think of hacking into voting machines and changing the results of an election.

Cyber attacks are growing in prominence every day — from influencing major elections to crippling businesses overnight, the role cyber warfare plays in our daily lives should not be underestimated.

At the beginning of her town hall on Trump's first 30 days at the Union Temple of Brooklyn in Prospect Heights, Clarke bluntly described Trump's presidency as the product of an «illegally hacked, illegitimate election» — a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin's campaign of cyber interference in the election process confirmed by the intelligence community and former President Barack Obama.

On June 21, 2017, nearly eight months after election day, in an open hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, NPPD's Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications Jeanette Manfra confirmed for the first time that «election - related systems in 21 states were targeted» by Russian cyber actors during the 2016 election cycle.